Great, Zep! I have not tried with gardening soil yet as I don't know if it is suitable with water flooded at all time. I might try it next batch too. BTW, you can buy some cheaper type of aquasoil to try out first. And ya, when you trim your plants, it is good that you can try the emersed form.
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This is my simple set up.
Garden soil and potting soil
1 foot tank with a 50/50 mix of potting and garden soil
Filled the tank with water till about 90% of the soil depth
And finally cling wrap
I have ludwigia glandulosa, staurogyne repens and myriophyllum mattogrossense in there. Hope they grow.
Pardon the bad photos
Nice setup in the tank, Zep! Keep us updated on the progress! Hope you will have a "Dutch Style" soon.
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One week on and plants are still alive. Although I don't see any new leaves at least some of the stems are "straightened".
Myriophyllum mattogrossense doesn't look too good though. Aquatic Plant Central website says it can grow emersed but maybe the stem is too soft. Will see how it goes.
I added some more trimmings. Ludwigia sp red, rotala bonsai and syngonanthus sp Belem. Hope they fare well in the coming weeks.
The plants look good, bro Zep! The roots has been developing definitely!
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Hi guys,
Just to update the status of my emersed Rotala Bonsai. The plants so far grow very well with roots established deeply in the jar. You can see the plants getting taller now.
I have noticed the leaves also getting much darker compared to the one inside the tank. And the color is very nice! Leaves are healthy so far with strong veins and shiny!
I think that is a good experiment and from now on, we can play around with trimmed stalks from the main tank. And we can also use the emersed plants without spending money to buy from shops.
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well done !
Wow interesting. I feel like trying HC emersed to carpet my small terarium glass bowl
i got myself a small tank liao. following foot steps.
An update, I transferred the L glandulosa, staurogyne and L sp red into a pot and left it outdoors.
Sadly the L glandulosa did not make it. The leaves were all broken by the rain and only the stem was left. Not sure if new leaves will grow. Am going to try it in the shade for my next batch.
The L sp red bent but some small shoots can be seen. Staurogyne seems alright. Hope these will survive and can be grown outdoors under the rain and shine.
Am cultivating my 2nd batch in the sealed up tank for more trials .
As per my observation, the plants roots develop after about 2 weeks with Cling Wrap covered the bowl/tank/jar. So I only remove the Cling Wrap once I see the roots penetrate around. This is to make sure that the plants can survive by taking up nutrient and water from the soil, and not the leaves itself. So, to enhance the surviving rate, you might just leave the plants within the wrapping protection until the plants are stable.
I have also tried to plants several kinds and will update later if successful.
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It probably depends on the type of plants too. For my s repens when I transplanted it into the pot the roots are already developed. So far they are surviving in the outdoor environment.
For the l glandulosa, the roots are also developed inside the cling wrapped environment but it did not survive outdoors. Maybe it's the recent rain that caused all the leaves to break off or maybe this plant requires more moisture in the substrate and environment. Got to experiment more.
Will be trying to transplant rotala bonsai outdoors soon. See if it can survive the rain and sunshine.
Yeah! That is all about trial and error. Good experiments too!
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This morning I saw some tiny shoots coming out of the l glandulosa bare stems that I left in the pot. So seems like the older submersed leaves all fell off under the rain and new emersed shoots are sprouting out. Luckily I didn't throw the bare stems away.
These are some tiny emersed leaves coming out from l sp red.
And these are the s repens. Seems alright.
These plants are all outdoors subject to rain and shine.
The plants look good, Zep! Yup. I also noticed the submersed leave type will be dried off and fall. The emersed leave might look in different form.
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